June 26, 2012 Luke’s Dinner Party – Grilled Salmon and Spelt Salad

June 26, 2012 Luke’s Dinner Party – Grilled Salmon and Spelt Salad

Luke invited four friends for dinner (two Sarah Lawrence friends, Sarah and Marjorie, and two old Albuquerque friends).  We spoke in the afternoon and I went by Costco and picked up a filet of Steelhead salmon ($6.99/lb) and 2 lb. box of cherry tomatoes.

When I arrived home Suzette had not yet arrived so I got to cook the Salmon.  We did not have a cedar board, so I brushed the Salmon with oil and drizzled lemon on it.  Luke had boiled spelt and made a salad by adding chopped cucumbers and crumbed ricotta salata cheese and some basil.  He had bought a head of red leaf lettuce at La Montanita Coop.  I sliced a handful of the cherry tomatoes in half and we piled the spelt salad on leaves of lettuce and garnished the salad with tomatoes and laid a slice of cooked salmon on each plate.  We ate in the garden and had a lively conversation while we drank a New Zealand and a Kenwood Sauvignon Blanc.

For dessert, we ate Clafoutis (Cherry custard) with small glasses of Spanish Paxaran (infused juniper berry liquor).

Bon Appétit.